[ruby-core:90413] [Ruby trunk Feature#5400] Remove flip-flops in 2.0

Issue #5400 has been updated by shevegen (Robert A. Heiler).


I only got to know it after having read the news entry just now. :-)

I think the impact of its removal will be very, very little - not
many need it; and I am sure even less depend on it. Personally after
having seen it, I would not use it because it (to me) seems not 
worth getting my brain to try to understand what it is doing. I
like to write extremely simple code that I can very quickly 
understand.

I think the only question is whether matz is ok with the removal
(possibly if it was changed already), considering his statement about
avoiding backwards-incompatible change until 3.0 - but I think in this
case, it will really just about not affect anyone. I do not recall even
having seen flip flop used in real code in the last ~10 years or
so even including having checked quite a few gems by other people
on rubygems.org. Personally I think it is good to remove it - makes
ruby a tiny bit simpler to understand. :D
(Ternary + flip-flop is a bit to the mind like this language that
starts with Brain ...)

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Feature #5400: Remove flip-flops in 2.0
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5400#change-75564

* Author: judofyr (Magnus Holm)
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
* Target version: Next Major
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Nobody knows them. Nobody uses them. Let's just get rid of flip-flops, shall we?



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